A Carrollton man claims police put him a bus without his prescribed medications and banished him to Florida. Adam Horine says he experienced “psychotic episodes” during the trip, urinated on himself and was “forced to catheterize himself.”

Police found “no indication of foul play” in Derrick Rose’s jail death. But our investigation found a bevy of missteps, from the courts system to the corrections system and everything in between. “It’s a cascade of failures, it really is,” one expert said.

Carrollton Mayor Robb Adams issued a show of support for the city’s police chief and a veteran officer who were indicted on kidnapping and misconduct charges. Adams noted that both officers will continue to work as city employees, but in a non-law enforcement capacity. Adams also stressed that the officers are “innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Adam Horine, the mentally ill Kentucky man removed from jail and put on a bus to Florida by Carrollton police earlier this year, faces a new criminal charge. Meanwhile, a police misconduct probe continues.

The decision by Carrollton police to ship an emotionally disturbed man by bus to Florida has prompted a state attorney general’s investigation — and has renewed interest in the centuries-old practice of banishment. It’s illegal in Kentucky. But it still happens.

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